GUWAHATI: The Myanmar-based anti-talk Ulfa (Independent) on Friday denied the outfit’s involvement in the shootout in Tinsukia district on Thursday evening in which five Bengali-speaking men were killed.In a statement issued by the member of outfit’s publicity department Romel Asom said, “We the ULFA (I) would like to make it clear to all concerned authorities that our organisation does not have any involvement in the firing incident that occurred on November 1 at Sadiya Saikhowaghat in Tinsukia district.”The police also are refusing to confirm the identity of the killers at this moment. “It’s too early to say who did it at this moment,” a top police official said.Police source said that spent bullets of AK 81, a Chinese-designed Kalashnikov, were recovered from the site of the killing. This variant of AK series of rifles is known to be in possession of Ulfa(I).People in the area are venting their anger against the police, who they said arrived quite late after the firing happened. “The police came at least one and half hours after the firing took place. Someone also called up the Dhola police station, just a stone’s throw away but the mobile phones of the officials were shown switched off,” the lone survivor Sahadev Namasudra said.He said, “The men first fired something in the air that produced lot of smoke around us and then started firing at us.”

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